The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church - Rachel L. Swarns - Rachel L. Swarns

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An urgent new chapter in the history of the Catholic Church and America\'s reckoning with its founding narrative Outstanding .
The 272 tells a bigger story, demonstrating how slavery fueled the growth of the Catholic Church in America and bringing to light the Enslaved people whose forced labor helped to Build the largest religious denomination in the nation..
Swarns\'s journalism has already started a national conversation about universities with ties to slavery.
They would go on to join other GU272 descendants who pressed Georgetown and the Catholic Church to make amends, prodding the institutions to break new ground in the movement for reparations and reconciliation in America.
Their descendants would remain apart until Rachel Swarns\'s reporting in The New York Times finally reunited them.
The other was Sold and shipped to Louisiana.
One daughter managed to escape.
One of those descendants, Harry Mahoney, saved lives and the church\'s money in the War of 1812, but his children, including Louisa and Anna, Were put up for sale in 1838.
Her descendants, who Were Enslaved by Jesuit priests, passed down the story of that broken promise for centuries.
Joice sailed to Maryland in the late 1600s as an indentured servant, but her contract was burned and her freedom stolen.
The story begins with Ann Joice, a free Black woman and the matriarch of the Mahoney family.
Through the saga of the Mahoney family, Swarns illustrates how the Church relied on slave labor and slave sales to sustain its operations and to help finance its expansion.
Swarns follows one family through nearly two centuries of indentured servitude and enslavement to uncover the harrowing origin story of the Catholic Church in the United States.
In this groundbreaking account, journalist, author, and professor Rachel L. an incredible project of research, deciphering, and storytelling, and a devastating indictment not only of Georgetown but also of the entire Catholic Church.--Steven Hahn, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Nation Under Our Feet In 1838, a group of America\'s most prominent Catholic priests Sold 272 Enslaved people to save their largest mission project, what is now Georgetown University. . .
An urgent new chapter in the history of the Catholic Church and America\'s reckoning with its founding narrative Outstanding